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Best Science Books 2009: The Independant

Category: best science books 2009 • science books
Posted on: December 18, 2009 11:22 AM, by John Dupuis

I've cobbled together this list from three lists from The Independent: Nature & Environment, Biography and History.

  • The Running Sky: A bird-watching life by Tim Dee
  • Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo by Michael McCarthy
  • Edible Seashore: river cottage handbook no. 5 by John Wright
  • Logicomix: an epic search for truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos and Annie di Donna
  • Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
  • The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo
  • Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World by Christian Wolmar
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